Attn Sven: Brown to match unemployed with jobs

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LE

Attn Sven and all other bone-idle numpties enjoying a good scrounge of the state...

Telegraph said:

Brown to match unemployed with jobs

The unemployed are to be matched up with thousands of job vacancies in a fresh bid by Gordon Brown to reduce the number of benefit claimants.

The Prime Minister said today he had signed up companies across the retail, financial services and hospitality sectors who were committed to finding employment for the out of work in what Mr Brown billed as the next stage of Labour's New Deal, which has already found work for 2.5 million people since 1997. He said everybody would be given the opportunity to work.

He said: "Our task is to match those people who want jobs and want opportunities with the vacancies and the jobs that are available."

LE

What Gordo actually said was 'We will ensure that those who can work will work.' But that was 10 years ago and since then National Audit Office has declared that the number of people who are 'economically inactive' has risen to the highest level since records began in 1971.

Unemployment is now higher than it ever was under Thatcher in the 80s. 33% of households depend on benefits for most of their income and 21% of the working age population are wholly dependent on benefits.

LE

Why work when you can get paid for being idle ? Good deal for the unemployed not so good for the tax payer who has to foot the bill. As the UK economy isnt doing real well there are fewer jobs to be had. The problem isnt confined to the UK but is found across Europe.

LE

Why work when you can get paid for being idle ? Good deal for the unemployed not so good for the tax payer who has to foot the bill. As the UK economy isnt doing real well there are fewer jobs to be had. The problem isnt confined to the UK but is found across Europe.

It's a bit more serious in the UK. One third of the population get most of their income from benefits. We also have a hugely bloated public sector. About 20% of the working population work for the government.

We're rapidly heading for a situation where half of the population are dependent on the tax paid by the other half. Our welfare expenditure is currently about the same as out health expenditure and our education expenditure combined.

This can't go on and, when the revolution comes, I'll be too old to take part.

LE

Blah, Blah, Cobblers BBC also said something along these lines, but I don't believe a single word, let alone a phrase or a sentence, uttered by the Stalinist, reportedly 'psychologically flawed', well adjusted with a chip on each shoulder, growling, anchorite-like git Brown.

He might appear to be a more honest guy than the greasy and dishonest spiv he has succeeded (not a difficult task) but he will be as ghastly and disasterous to this country.

I am agog to learn who he will blame for the dodgy financial situation this country is in. When the pensions disaster starts to bite and when the debt mountain begins to become clear, who will this Scottish monster blame? My bet is it will be the Tories!

LE

Watching the history channel t'other day
It seeems in the '30's there was this German leader
He promised to get the unemployed off their arrses (road building etc)
He promised to build more prisons (the translator called them 'camps' must have lost something off the German translation) where he was going to send all undesirables to
He was going to sort the inflation rate and the money out
He was going to get the factories back to full employment
Education,education,education for everyone
He was going to sort out those crazy religious nutters who arrived at their borders and demanded access to everything and they wanted to build there own churches etc
Give me 10 years and you won't recognise this country he said.

Then it seems it all went a bit pete tong for him.............

He allied himself with a country thousands of miles away and dragged loads of little allies along with him although they just soaked up the rewards and contributed very little to the operations they were on
He invaded a sovereign country under a stupid pretence
He let the human rights brigade look at his camps
He tried to control state radio and TV
He employed a spin doctor to bury bad news( along with anyone who believed the bad news)
As it started to go wrong he blamed everyone but himself (he would have got away with it if it hadn't been for that pesky Kaiser)
He then handed over power to a mate blamed him for fukcing it all up and despite being offered a roving ambassadors job in South America he did the decent thing and shot his ugly free boating wife and then himself

War Hero

It's a bit more serious in the UK. One third of the population get most of their income from benefits. We also have a hugely bloated public sector. About 20% of the working population work for the government.
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Spot on A_M. Its people like me (good old fashioned capitalist) who provides the jobs and actually creates something called wealth. Unfortunately we are despised by New Labour even though our taxes fund the bloated beast of the Public Sector and Benefits. It won't take much for me to shut up shop and disappear abroad.

Edited to add I've never employed anyone direct from the dole queue. What we need is skilled employees with a willingness to graft. Few and far between these days! The quality of school leavers for apprenticeships is dire. Seems everyone thinks they are owed a living these days (and a lift to work if they can't drive).

LE

Why work when you can get paid for being idle ? Good deal for the unemployed not so good for the tax payer who has to foot the bill. As the UK economy isnt doing real well there are fewer jobs to be had. The problem isnt confined to the UK but is found across Europe.

LE

But what about 'education,education,education'. With the massive expansion of university education, how can you claim that there's a shortage of skilled employees?

As an employer, you must have applicants queueing up and waving their degrees in Surf Management (Link), dancing (Link) and, of course, media studies. They may have failed their A-levels. They may struggle a bit with reading and writing. But that doesn't matter as they've got the increasingly ubiquitous first class honours degree that proves they are highly educated. Innit?

MIA

He then handed over power to a mate blamed him for fukcing it all up and despite being offered a roving ambassadors job in South America he did the decent thing and shot his ugly free boating wife and then himself

LE

To start with try and find these politicians a proper job,didnt Prescott get paid for nearly a year to do fcuk all. Secondly to stop the generation of dole scroungers continuing the family trait, no benefits unless you have paid taxes for at least 2 years of your life... to include scrounging students.
Get the apprentice schemes runnning properly again with a decent start off wage provided by the government and industry to get good trade skills and we then might be able to employ British tradesmen rather than importing.

That's what I call the conning of a generation aka the dumbing down of education. My Maths O level is the equivalent of today's A level. Kids today all want to work in IT - god forbid you should get your hands dirty.

War Hero

Get the apprentice schemes runnning properly again with a decent start off wage provided by the government and industry to get good trade skills and we then might be able to employ British tradesmen rather than importing.

I'm struggling to find an apprentice for this year. The pay is crap to start with but I have to invest my skilled staff's time to wet nurse them. You've got to start at the bottom and unfortunately we have a generation of 16 year olds who think sweeping up and making brew is beneath them. I have one lad who is 21 I employ as a labourer on just above minimum wage - if he can frame I might pay for him to attend college in his own time. Unfortunately I've done this before and it has backfired costing me time and money.

MIA

It all seems like a good idea but i don't think it will work as all the workshy chav cnuts will do is steal from their employers, get the sack, get a pathetic punishment from the courts and go straight back on the dole where they can continue their lavish lifestyle of plasma TV's, jeremey Kyle, orangeboom lager and spawning more chavs. all paid for by us halfwits.

As one chavette i once booked into custody said "I'VE GOT THREE KIDS, I DON'T NEED TO WORK"

War Hero

It all seems like a good idea but i don't think it will work as all the workshy chav cnuts will do is steal from their employers, get the sack, get a pathetic punishment from the courts and go straight back on the dole where they can continue their lavish lifestyle of plasma TV's, jeremey Kyle, orangeboom lager and spawning more chavs. all paid for by us halfwits.

As one chavette i once booked into custody said "I'VE GOT THREE KIDS, I DON'T NEED TO WORK"

Swinger

Is the welfare system the problem? - in the States you only get so much for so long and then you can try going through bins - rather than Broon try to match jobs to workshy doley t*ssers why not just axe 80% of benifits and let market forces do the rest.

I have heard it said that this is the reason that American Muslims are American first as they have not had the comfort zone that their EU cousins get.

Old-Salt

It's a bit more serious in the UK. One third of the population get most of their income from benefits. We also have a hugely bloated public sector. About 20% of the working population work for the government.
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Spot on A_M. Its people like me (good old fashioned capitalist) who provides the jobs and actually creates something called wealth. Unfortunately we are despised by New Labour even though our taxes fund the bloated beast of the Public Sector and Benefits. It won't take much for me to shut up shop and disappear abroad.

Edited to add I've never employed anyone direct from the dole queue. What we need is skilled employees with a willingness to graft. Few and far between these days! The quality of school leavers for apprenticeships is dire. Seems everyone thinks they are owed a living these days (and a lift to work if they can't drive).

Old-Salt

To start with try and find these politicians a proper job,didnt Prescott get paid for nearly a year to do fcuk all. Secondly to stop the generation of dole scroungers continuing the family trait, no benefits unless you have paid taxes for at least 2 years of your life... to include scrounging students.Get the apprentice schemes runnning properly again with a decent start off wage provided by the government and industry to get good trade skills and we then might be able to employ British tradesmen rather than importing.

IMO, in terms of providing opportunities, this country has done more than enough. There are a myriad of education opporunities out there for the young man/woman today, including apprenticeships ( http://www.bconstructive.co.uk for eg.). However I think the problem lies with the quality of candidates and the 'rights culture' that the new generation have been imbibed with. A sizeable proportion of young people I've come across seem to expect something for nothing - to the extent that they cannot even take the effort to properly fill out an application form! EG Application Qn: "Why do you want to be in this industry". Ans "becuase i like it".